Featherbed Lane, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does Featherbed Lane in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 10, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Featherbed Lane in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (39) and transit (80). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Featherbed Lane, with 90 reports. Across every category, 888 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 78 reports, and residential noise with 59. Reports on Featherbed Lane span 54 distinct 311 categories. About 143 reports per 100 homes sit on Featherbed Lane, counting every category.
Featherbed Lane carries 136 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Featherbed Lane, 58 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 53 violations, then pests at 46. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on Featherbed Lane holding 621 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 48 homes each.
Since 2021, 61 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 12, with traffic safety at 5. Featherbed Lane sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 12 and housing at 6 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 65 and tree cover 51, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Featherbed Lane, at 80. Featherbed Lane is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Featherbed Lane ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 39.
56% of the 621 homes recorded on Featherbed Lane are rent-stabilized, 345 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Featherbed Lane runs through University Heights & Morris Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).